HAPPY EARTH WEEK!
How will you be celebrating Earth Week and Earth Day (April 22)?

I will be speaking (just long enough to cheer on Miami Greenies!) to an estimated crowd of 20,000 at the Green Apple Music Festival in Miami this Sunday. The Green Apple Festival has been a huge Earth Day event in New York City, and has spread to other cities - this is the first year for Miami - making it eight cities in 2008 - the largest Earth Day festival ever, anywhere. Bill McKibben and Robert Kennedy Jr. will be speaking in NYC. Find the festival nearest you to join in the fun: www.greenapplemusicfestival.com

Take a moment to let others know your green intentions by signing onto the national Earth Day map at www.google.com/earthday08.

The Institute for Heart Math - where scientists have found strong ties between our thoughts, hearts, mind, brain, and physical and mental health - has developed a simple, short meditative exercise that helps us achieve a greater sense of peace and good health. They've created a beautiful video to walk us through the steps to generate good thoughts and good health for the Earth to celebrate Earth Day 2008. Join in! http://www.heartmath.org/million_hearts/

HAVE A FUN EARTH DAY - WE CAN TURN THE TIDE!

We're in the news:

From composting to recycling, a green lifestyle can seem complicated and costly, according to this story by McClatchy Newspapers. The story discusses green-living strategies by Trish Riley, the Florida-based author of "Complete Idiot's Guide to http://startelegram.typepad.com/planet_dfw/2008/04/daily-roundu-13.html

Daily Roundup
By Rick
The story discusses green-living strategies by Trish Riley, the Florida-based author of "Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living". *
Planet DFW - http://startelegram.typepad.com/planet_dfw/

Thanks for including me in your recommendations, Rick! I see that Andy Revkin is recommending your blog on his New York Times site - KUDOS to you, TOO!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/home/chi-green_simplyapr13,1,929375.story

Making the 'green life' transformation one step at a time

By Sharon Harvey Rosenberg |McClatchy Newspapers

April 13, 2008

(This story is really making the rounds! Three cheers for syndication!)

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804150305

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Bright ideas
7 easy ways to live life greener

By JENNIE GEISLER
jennie.geisler@timesnews.com

Published: April 15. 2008 6:00AM

So you recycle -- because your town makes you. Think that's all you have to do to live green? Zoom | Buy this photo

So you recycle -- because your town makes you.

Think that's all you have to do to live green?


Not anymore. The messages about "living green" and protecting the environment are coming from everywhere now. Despite your best intentions, you might not know how to boost your eco-friendly status.

Trish Riley, an environmental writer since 1992, is the author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living: Earth-Saving Solutions for Every Part of Your Life."

Riley attributes the current green-living craze to Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," his Oscar-winning documentary on global warming.

But she added that it was only a matter of time. To read the rest of the article...